PGL Major Antwerp 2022 Europe RMR Open Qualifier 2

SINNERS, Bad News Eagles, Spirit, Endpoint qualify for PGL Major Antwerp Europe RMR

2-3-2022 21:51

Eleven spots are still up for grabs in the remaining Europe RMR open qualifiers.

Four more teams have secured spots at the Europe Regional Major Ranking tournaments that will take place in Bucharest, Romania, in April, winning their best-of-three quarter-finals in the second PGL Major Antwerp Europe RMR Open Qualifier.

The teams in question are SINNERS, Bad News Eagles, Spirit and Endpoint, who are playing out the qualifier's bracket to be seeded in one of the two European RMR tournaments.

Bad News Eagles will play the RMR event in Romania

SINNERS were the first to punch their ticket to the Europe RMR by beating one of the weaker teams in the quarter-finals, FTW, although the Portuguese had previously punched above their weight beating Eternal Fire in the round of 16 to reach the qualifying series. The Czech squad only needed two maps to stop their Iberian foes, however, taking Nuke (16-12) and Inferno (16-9) with David "⁠forsyy⁠" Bílý putting up a 1.51 rating.

The second team to cross the finish line was Bad News Eagles, the Kosovar squad that has been on the rise despite losing backing from their organization, BLINK, at the beginning of the year, and took out the likes of BIG, Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield's Benched Heroes and Coalesce in the first day of the qualifier. In the first matches of day two, Rigon "⁠rigoN⁠" Gashi and company took out VOID in a quick 16-4 best-of-one before defeating the Serbs of 4glory in a series that went the full three maps.

Endpoint played overtimes in both the RO16 and quarter-finals

Strive in chaos, the qualifier's Cinderella, were one round away from qualifying for the RMR after leaving Tokyo Revengers behind, but unable to close the deciding map of Dust2 in the very last round against Spirit. The Russians turned around a 3-12 deficit and as the more experienced team then thrived in overtime, winning four out of five rounds to punch their ticket to Bucharest. Abdul "⁠degster⁠" Gasanov's heroics were crucial, as the AWPer ended the series with a 1.50 rating.

The last quarter-final series to end was the one between Endpoint and K23, with the European squad edging the Russians in a decider map overtime on Ancient. The two Middle Eastern players in the squad, Mohammad "⁠BOROS⁠" Malhas and Guy "⁠NertZ⁠" Iluz, powered the international team in their final hurdle with 1.35 and 1.24 ratings, respectively. Before the final series, Max "⁠MiGHTYMAX⁠" Heath and his men also had a nail-biter against Movistar Riders, beating the Spaniards in double-overtime on Vertigo in the RO16.

The qualified teams for the European RMRs so far are:

TBD Europe RMR

TBD Europe RMR

RMR Europe A

RMR Europe B

Why Movistar?

2022-03-02 21:52

9 replies

they will probably make next one

2022-03-02 22:00

7 replies

I can see them making it to the round of 16 of every qualifier and not getting to the rmr

2022-03-02 22:11

6 replies

believe i dont think so, they are pretty good team

5 replies

Several good teams fail currently, sprout, forse, ecstatic, big, fnatic, k23. Only 8 spots left though.

2022-03-02 22:25

4 replies

10 spots, 5 for the next two qualies

2022-03-02 22:47

3 replies

and 1 for the east russian one right?

2022-03-03 01:07

1 reply

still no Fnatic and BIG lul

2022-03-03 02:20

oh yeah youre right. forgot those last qualifiers provide one more

2022-03-03 18:26

sunpayus did have a hell of a game vs endpoint tbf they'll make the next one if he keeps that form

2022-03-02 23:31

EZ4BadNewsEagles

Will PGL ban Gambit & VP as well If yes but like ESL, what stickers Valve will do?

2022-03-02 21:54

10 replies

World will end in nuclear holocaust before the major, so stickers hardly matter.

2022-03-02 21:56

Nobody will use nukes because of a focken Donetsk lol

2022-03-02 21:57

or will they? youtu.be/1dwu4iVA1yo?t=2

Hey, Vsauce, Vladimir here

2022-03-03 08:15

I hope so but is that what Putin thinks aswell?

2022-03-02 21:59

Russia joined ww1 for Serbia, let that sink in, so much destruction and a horrible civil war just to protect a foreign nation who would turn its back to you as soon as the bolsheviks won xaxa.

2022-03-02 22:05

it was not for Serbia but for Entente and for colonial possessions/dreams of russian elites about gathering Bosphorus and Dardanelles, nothing more

No stickers for RMRs

I mean, they will qualify without any problems

2022-03-02 21:58

No, valve will keep politics out of csgo since they are the most sane out there

2022-03-03 04:40

Feels bad for K23, I think they're probably better than Spirit atm Endpoint in the RMR once again lets gooooooooooo Now please nobody steal their star players right before the major :((((

2022-03-02 21:55

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Dont wanna be rude or anything, but who exactly are the stars players from endpoint?

Boros

flamez & mezi

BOROS and Nertz obviously It's already happened with Thomas, FlameZ and technically Mezii Endpoint are great and finding and developing talent, who are then bought out by bigger orgs. But every time it happens it sends them tumbling back down the ranking which sucks.

2022-03-02 22:07

Endpoint goat org

2022-03-02 22:15

ok, true

2022-03-02 22:40

its like Arsenal in football…its a company, not a team…they just wanna make money dont care about anything else

2022-03-03 12:00

Yes, K23 was very close both times. They should make it in 2 remaining qualifiers as competition gets easier.

2022-03-03 11:29

VP GO SIGN BNE EZ MAJOR

Ez BNE 🦅🦅

2022-03-02 22:01

11 spots? 5 in the 3rd qualifier and 4 in the 4th? 2 spots where???

2022-03-02 22:04

Its 5 and 5 + 1 for east russia if i am not mistaken

but russia /CIS can participate in this tournament?

2022-03-02 22:08

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Nothing decided or at least nothing known about that yet. Its just how it was planned some months ago Edit: hltv.org/events/6413/pgl-major-antwerp-2..

2022-03-02 22:10

Only teams that didn't play these 4 quals can play the far East one

2022-03-03 08:18

ez4endpoint

Bad news bears vs bad news eagles major final

2022-03-02 22:21

BadNewsEagles? Nani? Are they connected to BadNewsBears somehow or just similar names?

Yes they take that name from bad news bears but soon they find org

2022-03-02 22:28

Its just a temporary name untill they get an ORG

2022-03-02 22:34

be careful posting comments like this... I commented a similar thing like this and someone thought I was trolling. been banned throughout katowice playoffs.

2022-03-03 05:07

What if PGL bans Russian organizations?

2022-03-02 22:22

then rip vp and gambit

2022-03-02 22:24

Spirit? Lol gl Russian teams without visas Belgium bans issuing visas to Russian citizens

2022-03-02 22:37

haven't NA and Brazilian teams just used the 90 days rule to stay in EU for tournaments without visas?

2022-03-03 00:12

Nice

2022-03-02 23:21

ez 4 Bad News Eagles ez for Albania

2022-03-02 23:28

ez4BNE

2022-03-02 23:50

is there gonna be stickers for these team that made it to RMR

2022-03-02 23:55

What kind of a question is that ? Only top8 from the last major got the stickers..

2022-03-03 06:45

6 EU teams and 2 CIS team. Where are the people who said that CIS teams would dominate the European RMR?

2022-03-03 00:08

In the mud ?

2022-03-03 06:47

they are on war atm

2022-03-03 10:58

Well some unpredictable things happened

2022-03-03 14:28

sad

2022-03-03 02:18

Russians won't be able to get a visa/get out of the country to go to the major so why are they playing? Feels kinda rip for them tho :\

2022-03-03 02:21

things could and definitely will change by the time the major comes around. maybe the sanctions become much bigger or they're lifted. we can't predict what'll happen in a few months time

2022-03-03 11:08

2022-03-03 11:15

Bad news eagles, interesting team from Kosovo

2022-03-03 19:02

This SINNERS team now with forsyy has a really good amount of firepower, they lost some experience with oskar but man, forsyy is doing really well replacing him. This Bad News Eagles team also makes sense, the players seem to feel comfortable together, they don't really have enough firepower to enter TOP 20-15, nor are they so strong tactically, but having a TOP 30 team for a country like Kosovo must already feel really good. Spirit made it because of individuals, but I'm not so satisfied with the way they play, even the roles seem a bit messed up, it's really weird rebuild they did, I doubt this 5-man lineup will stay together for long. Endpoint is very comparable to BNE imo., not enough firepower for TOP 20-15, decent structure but not that deep tactical depth, roles that makes sense, overall solid TOP 20-30 teams it feels like. GL in the RMR boyz!

2022-03-03 21:46

what do you mean BNE doesnt have enough firepower to enter top 20-15?, they are literally best tier2 with the most firepower out there they were top 23 if im not mistaken. they would go through top 20 aswell if the money-contract issue didnt happen between org and the two players rigon and seneri, so of course the movement and the rhythm stopped as the team fell apart(blink) they had to wait for like a month to re-unite together and of course they rank dropped and they have no invitations so far tournament wise.

2022-03-04 00:11

What I mean to say is that I don't think they can compete individually with teams like FURIA, MOUZ etc. Didn't want to offend them, I agree that they're one of the best Tier-2 teams out there rn.

2022-03-04 18:48